The creative nature of the artist lends itself to a view of reality through the lens of aesthetic perception.
The creative act draws upon resources and experience in representing a perspective of the real, regardless of the medium employed or the context of the activity. It is communication that informs concepts, which in turn evoke perception, or vision, if you will.
Painting, literature, sounds and music, teaching, learning, politics, athletics, sculpture and invention-- these may indeed be arts, given imagination, and all the better if tempered by moral reason and clarified by the force of virtue, these being timeless and universal.
Therein lies meaning, and most particularly that of what it means to be human.
The creative act draws upon resources and experience in representing a perspective of the real, regardless of the medium employed or the context of the activity. It is communication that informs concepts, which in turn evoke perception, or vision, if you will.
Painting, literature, sounds and music, teaching, learning, politics, athletics, sculpture and invention-- these may indeed be arts, given imagination, and all the better if tempered by moral reason and clarified by the force of virtue, these being timeless and universal.
Therein lies meaning, and most particularly that of what it means to be human.
